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No funding crisis?

England’s school system is not even on the verge of a funding crisis, the DfE’s new schools tsar has insisted.

Dominic Herrington’s comments, in his first major interview since becoming interim national schools commissioner in September, come despite teachers, MPs, ex-ministers and funding experts all pointing to the growing funding problems in schools.

However, Mr Herrington told Tes: “I don’t agree [the school system] is on the verge of a crisis but I am acutely conscious of the pressures that schools and academy trusts face, both professionally and personally, and I think our job is to make sure we help those trusts as best we can.”